It’s hard to know where to start when exploring works by famous African-American authors ... best classic books by Black authors. This roundup includes both fiction and nonfiction, spanning ...
Who decides what qualifies as a “masterpiece of African American literature ... ostensibly authentic Black experience. In ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Omar Tyree, author of such urban lit narratives as “Flyy Girl” and “The Last Street Novel," recently went to see the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.” ...
Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...
By featuring novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama alongside guidebooks, photographs, and print culture, African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 provides evidence of the literary ...
After a book monograph on Henry James and Henry Adams, my research has encompassed more contemporary fields in African-American culture, sports literature, urban contemporary fiction, and ...
US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the ...